Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Forest Fire Detection

We proposed a deep learning method for forest fire detection. We train both a full image and fine grained patch fire classifier in a joined deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). The fire detection is operated in a cascaded fashion, ie the full image is first tested by the global image-level classifier, if fire is detected, the fine grained patch classifier is followed to detect the precise location of fire patches. Our fire patch detector obtains 97% and 90% detection accuracy on training and testing datasets respectively. To facilitate the evaluation of various fire detectors in the community, we build a fire detection benchmark. According to our best knowledge, this is the first one with patch-level annotations.